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All 291 Palworld Partner Skills

Every Pal's Partner Skill with its full effect — 180 of the 291 showing the exact Lv.1–Lv.5 values, read from that Pal's own rank data. 124 need a Pal Gear unlock first, 167 need none. Filter by Mount, Combat, Utility or Farming, or search by what a skill does.

Browse all 291 Partner Skills

Every skill's effect is here in full, and 180 of the 291 carry their Lv.1–Lv.5 values inline — read straight from that Pal's own rank data. Search a Pal, a skill, or the wording of the effect itself. Open a row for the rest of that Pal's progression.

Skill types (Mount, Combat, Utility, Farming) from the Palworld Wiki, CC BY-SA. Lv.1–Lv.5 values are read from each Pal's own rank data and shown only where they match the range the game states.

How to activate Partner Skills

  1. Add the Pal to your party. Only Pals in the 5-slot active party can fire their Partner Skill. Swap from the Pal Box.
  2. Summon the Pal. Throw its sphere with the summon key to call it out in the field. Some Partner Skills also trigger while the Pal is assigned to the base.
  3. Press the Partner Skill key. F on PC, LB on Xbox. Active skills with a Technology unlock requirement remain greyed out until you research that Technology.

How to level up Partner Skills (Lv.1 → Lv.5)

Partner Skill rank is raised by Condensing at the Pal Essence Condenser. Palworld 1.0 cut the cost of a maxed Pal from 116 duplicates to 48, and every rank now raises base stats, work suitability and Partner Skill effect strength at once — shortening the cooldown on active skills as it goes.

RankDuplicatesRunning totalWhat changes
Lv.1——Base — the Pal you caught
Lv.2+44Stats, work suitability and Partner Skill scale up
Lv.3+812Effect strength keeps climbing
Lv.4+1224Another step up, closing on the cap
Lv.5+2448Maxed — for most Pals the biggest single jump, and the lowest cooldown

Exact numbers vary per Pal. 180 of the 291 skills in the table below print all five (e.g. Anubis Attack +30% → 50%, Smokie Collect Item Drop 100 → 200); for the rest the game states only the range, and each Pal's page carries the per-rank breakdown.

Rank is only half of it for 66 Pals: their progression carries an extra “Awakening:” line that stays blank until the Pal is awakened as well. What awakening costs and which 66 Pals it touches →

Frequently asked questions

What are Partner Skills in Palworld?
Every Pal has one unique Partner Skill — an ability triggered while the Pal is following the player (Active) or simply assigned to the team or base (Passive). Effects range from combat damage buffs and elemental empowerment to crafting bonuses, mount transformations, and item-finding boosts.
How do I activate a Pal's Partner Skill?
Add the Pal to your active 5-slot party in the Pal Box, summon it in the field, then press the Partner Skill key (F on PC, LB on Xbox). Active skills with a Technology unlock requirement remain greyed out until that Technology is researched in the tech tree.
How do I level up a Partner Skill?
Use the Pal Essence Condenser. The four ranks cost 4, 8, 12 and 24 duplicates of the same species — 48 in total to reach Lv.5, down from 116 before Palworld 1.0. Each rank raises base stats, work suitability and the Partner Skill's effect strength, and shortens the cooldown on active skills. The exact per-rank values for any species are on its detail page here.
What's the difference between Active and Passive Partner Skills?
The split on this page is by Technology unlock, not by how the skill fires. Technology-gated ones need a Pal Gear unlock first — Foxparks' Huggy Fire flamethrower at Tech 6. The rest need no unlock, but many of them still read "when activated" in their own description, so check the card: Cattiva raises your carry weight just by being in the party, while Anubis's buff fires on the Partner Skill key.
Do Partner Skills stack across multiple Pals?
Usually not, since Palworld 1.0. The update reworked over 200 Partner Skills and added an explicit “(Does not stack)” line to the in-game text: 146 of the 291 skills listed on this page carry it, Cattiva's carry weight and Pupperai's weapon damage among them. Where a skill shows that line, a second Pal with the same skill adds nothing. Where it does not, the game states nothing either way — guides that promise stacking outright were written before 1.0.
Where do Partner Skill ranks Lv.1 → Lv.5 show up?
Both here and on the Pal. The table on this page shows the five values inline wherever they can be checked against the range the game itself states — Anubis's Guardian of the Desert goes Attack +30% → 50%, Smokie's Dig, Smokie! Dig! goes Collect Item Drop 100 → 200. Every Pal detail page carries the full per-rank progression, including the skills whose values could not be matched here.

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